1. Medical
Treatment

2. Video

3. Wounded
What happened to the wounded?
– Friends cared for them the best they could
Serious Wounds?
– Ambulances later in the war
– Field hospitals
• Initial surgeries
– Convalescent Hospitals
• Recuperate
• Home or back to Unit
Death rates were very high – disease the
primary killer

5. Ambulances

6. CSA Field
Hospital

7. Hospitals
Soldiers avoided Field
Hospitals
– High Death Rates
– Southern Death Rates were
Worse
• Fewer Medical Supplies

8. Army Square
Hospital

9. Harewood Hospital

10. Douglas Hospital

11. Chimborazo

13. Surgeons

15. Medicines
Most Common
–Alcohol
• Abuse
Blue Mass
–Mercury and Chalk
Quinine

16. Disease
Dysentery (Chronic Diarrhea)
killed more soldiers than battle
Example
– 3 month case of diarrhea
– Went to hospital - lead acetate,
opium, sulfuric acid, etc.

17. Disease
Soldier died within 2
weeks of treatment
12th Connecticut
Regiment
–1,000 troops
–Only 600 by first battle

18. Amputations
Accounted for 75% of all
operations
–Little Sanitation - used
same saw and knife
48Hour Rule
–Twice as successful

19. Amputees

20. Anesthesia

21. Amputation

24. Prisons

25. Prisoner Exchange
Prisoners were exchanged
early in the war
– Point system
Later, Grant stopped the
system
– He could replace men, South
couldn’t
– Consequences. . . .

26. Southern
Andersonville
– By far the Worst of the war
– However, CSA didn’t have
enough food for citizens
• Prisoners were not a priority
• Conditions could have been
better, however.

27. Andersonville

32. Andersonville
Central Georgia
Commander - Wirz
26 acres enclosed by 15 foot
fence
– Intended to house 10,000
– Housed 32,000 by 8-1864

33. Andersonville
Only one small stream for water
– Drinking, bathing, latrine
– Drought caused disease
Deaths
– 45,000 total confined
– 13,000 died

34. No
Man’s
Land

35. Andersonvill
e
Survivor

37. Wirz Execution

38. Elmira
New York
Worst Union Camp
–Unnecessary
–25% death rate
–Twice the second-worst
Union camp

39. (H)Elmira

40. Elmira
Commander - Payback for
Andersonville
Rations
– Cut to Bread and Water
– Scurvy and Malnutrition
Southerners sent uniforms and
blankets
– Union commander burned blankets and
clothes sent unless gray